Massive Open Online Courses

Here is an interesting infographic about MOOCs: Massive Open Online Classes. I am a teacher myself, but I know that most of my students learn a lot from YouTube videos, where people explain how they play a certain song on their guitar or keyboard. So, I jumped on the bandwagon and put some instruction videos […]

Listography: life in lists

Create your personal database of lists: autobiographical lists, to-do lists, catalogues, wishlists, top tens, and more. Try the list topic generator. http://listography.com There once was also a "OnMyList"website, that I have tried one or two times. I made some listst there, but then I forgot about it. However, this is a new website with lists […]

3D

With my drawing skills, comparable to those of a child of seven, I’ll never be a great artist, but computers will help me to boost my creativity. After learning programs like Gimp and Inkscape, I’m now trying to work in 3D, which is quite difficult to learn! My ambitions are nothing less than making my […]

Mars in Second Life!

In an earlier post I mentioned that I would be interested in a Mars-simulation in Second Life. Today I was flying around in 2l, not knowing what to do. So I followed a railway, passively looking out for a nice scenery that might pop up. And there it was: Mars, hanging in the sky.   […]

Mars in Active Worlds

Second Life is there to simulate the real world. It could be nice to simulate life on other worlds too, e.g. life on Mars. Thus far I didn’t find such a simulation in 2L, so i looked in another MMORPG, Active Worlds. I logged in as guest and visited the Mars sim there. Here it […]

  • The Aesthetics and Beauty of Knowledge

    Shih was the opposite of facts and raw information; shih was the elegance of knowledge, the insight and skill to organize knowledge into meaningful patterns. As an artist chooses colours or light to make her pictures, a master of shih chooses textures of knowledge – various ideas, myths, abstractions, and theories – to create a way of seeing the world. The aesthetics and beauty of knowledge – this was shih.

    – David Zindell, The Broken God, 1993

  • Geek Attitude

    The attitude thing is about flexibility, portability, creativity, sociability and jamming (ran out of suitable “ity” words!). It’s about improvising – in the practical and musical senses of the word; not getting tangled in boundaries and the “right” way to do things.
    Definitely the only way to travel.
    Martin Delaney – “Laptop Music”.